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Stunning that no one saw this as a potential security issue. Just pay someone to be paranoid. The best part are the responses by the assorted companies:
"T-Mobile provided Ars a statement saying that it has "no indication that text messages or other types of personal information were exposed. "
Translation: We have no f'ing idea.
"Syniverse is apparently confident that it has everything under control but told the SEC that it could still discover more problems resulting from the breach"
You were wide open for 5 years. You have no f'ing clue.
"Syniverse repeatedly declined to answer specific questions from Motherboard about the scale of the breach and what specific data was affected"
Ya think?
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This is ridiculous. The fact that *all* of the major cell phone carriers used this one company says volumes.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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The Windows Package Manager is being released to Windows 10 (build 1809 and newer) and Windows 11 as an automatic update via the Microsoft Store. You know that thing you never use? Here's a new version.
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With October 12th around the corner, Silverlight will finally reach its end of life and will no longer be receiving future quality or security updates. Stock up on coffee and pull an all-nighter?
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Its Y2K all over again. Better start doomsday preppin'.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: will no longer be receiving future quality or security updates.
It never had neither one of them so what changed?
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Not having used it in my life yet, this will make a big difference in my lifestyle.
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Researchers planted a working hacker exploit in a physical strand of DNA. Were a bat and a pangolin involved?
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Time to update Manwarebytes.
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Memory leaks aren't a new thing for Windows users. This concludes our coverage of Windows 11 (for today)
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Best response in the responses: Cr4zyJoe said: Are the new icons responsible for this? Because... well... you know... They can be ditched.
Followed by:unlikely_spider said: Perfectly understandable, being that file explorer is a completely new concept to Windows, with little to no history behind it.
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I'm glad I have my Windows 10 updates permanently disabled. I'm going to let the rest of you debug this rolling train wreck.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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On the new "Ways to install Windows 11" support page, Microsoft mentions installing Windows 11 on a device that does not meet the minimum system requirements. "Don't look at it. Shut your eyes. Don't look at it, no matter what happens!"
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How[^] was it[^]?
What could go wrong?
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Tom Cruise hoped to make the first movie in space. Not this time, Maverick. Hopefully not a remake of Gravity
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Hopefully not a remake of Gravity
Or Life (2017) - IMDb[^] 
M.D.V.
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Many “emergency” situations in our modern world would’ve been easy to fix had they been foreseen in advance. If only we’d known what was going to happen, the badness could’ve easily been prevented. You just have to get your computer to 88 mph
Wisdom:
"One of the most common predictable emergencies is when a scenario begins to fail because a software’s version number gets “too high.”
This happened so commonly in Windows client software that Microsoft changed the GetVersionEx function to start lying to applications unless they declare (via manifest) that they can handle the truth."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If only we’d known what was going to happen, the badness could’ve easily been prevented.
That would be the common sense way... but then, we have management, politicians... and Microsoft 
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modified 6-Oct-21 10:57am.
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This wasn't a DNS issue itself, but failing DNS was the first symptom we'd seen of a larger Facebook outage. Apparently, it's not always DNS
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
Sadly it was only temporary... 
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There are three known issues listed today, two of which are blocking bugs, meaning that the firm will be putting in place compatibility holds to safeguard users from running into the issue were they to install the OS. And I'm sure that's all there will ever be
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There are three known issues listed today, two of which are blocking bugs
Recompile...
there are 7 known issues listed today, 4 of which are blocking bugs...
No problem, we will ship it anyways, they can't do anything against us. Screw those suckers our beta testers our users base.
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This new operating system empowers you to deliver new and innovative apps, grow your business how you choose, and makes developing on Windows easier by allowing you to use the tools and frameworks you already use and know. It's just like coding for Windows 10, but you round corners instead of cut them
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Kent Sharkey wrote: makes developing on Windows easier by allowing you to use the tools and frameworks you already use and know.
In other words, nothing has changed!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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For all the 12 people who can install it 
Also it comes with new shiny spyware, even more deeply embedded in your system. Don't ever wonder if Microsoft is sifting through all your data and activities: now you can be certain of it! 
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